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when sandy occurred, i thought, that's it, but -- in 2008 with the economic meltdown, i thought that's it. i think in terms of the power of corporations, most big corporations are bigger than most governments in the world. it's going to take a massive meltdown and a lot of people are going to suffer as a result. so it's a pretty apocalyptic view of what's going to help us get on that path. >> i heard a psychology professor at the earth institute here in new york say that, quote, scare campaigns and visions of apocalyptic futures backfire. they only work when there's something simple you can do to remove the danger. can you present climate change, the dangers and the threat with a -- >> positive -- >> simple enough, positive solution that enables people to accept, absorb and act on it? >> yeah, well, it's difficult, i think. i mean, there are all kinds of positive possibilities. but the important thing is to take the challenge seriously. and that's what we seem to be having trouble getting over that hurdle now. i was starting the -- my last year in college in 1957. and on october 4th, 1
when sandy occurred, i thought, that's it, but -- in 2008 with the economic meltdown, i thought that's it. i think in terms of the power of corporations, most big corporations are bigger than most governments in the world. it's going to take a massive meltdown and a lot of people are going to suffer as a result. so it's a pretty apocalyptic view of what's going to help us get on that path. >> i heard a psychology professor at the earth institute here in new york say that, quote, scare...
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sandy was the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded north of cape hatteras. how many warnings do we want? the world is changing. things are possible now that weren't before because we're changing the climate. i mean, it feels like god's doing his level best to tell us the fix that we're in, one crazy episode of weather after another. these are the alarms from a system that's beginning to swing out of control. we're supposed to be homo sapiens. intelligence is supposed to be our mark. we've been given the warning by our scientists who have done a terrific job at reaching consensus on a difficult problem in physics and chemistry. they've told us that we're in deep trouble. they've told us what we need to do, get off fossil fuel. the question now is whether we're actually going to respond to that. and it's like a sort of, well, it's like a kind of final exam for the question, was the big brain a good adaptation or not, you know? we're going find out in short order. and each of these things that comes up like the keystone pipeline is a kind of pop quiz along the
sandy was the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded north of cape hatteras. how many warnings do we want? the world is changing. things are possible now that weren't before because we're changing the climate. i mean, it feels like god's doing his level best to tell us the fix that we're in, one crazy episode of weather after another. these are the alarms from a system that's beginning to swing out of control. we're supposed to be homo sapiens. intelligence is supposed to be our mark. we've...
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Oct 31, 2012
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but now you have people like sandy weill, the architect of citigrou and sure, too little too late, after he made all of his money off creating these frankenstein monsters. but even he now recognizes that we have to break up the banks. you have senior officials at thr federal reserve recently coming out in favor of this, the vice chair of the fdic, a very strong advocate for breaking up the banks. and you hear it a lot more in members of congress that are supporting this notion.an so to me, on the one hand, it's absolutely essential. if we really want to get to the point where we don't have to bailout a bank, we have to make it so that no bank is so systemically significant and large that its failure could bring down the system. >> are they up to their old tricks? >> the banks? sure. i mean, you know, so we had this regulatory reform of dodd-frank in 2010, which, you know, left them intact and inside. but it had all of these rules and all of these regulations that needed to follow. and right now it is hand to hand, trench warfare, combat with those lobbyists spending all that money on cam
but now you have people like sandy weill, the architect of citigrou and sure, too little too late, after he made all of his money off creating these frankenstein monsters. but even he now recognizes that we have to break up the banks. you have senior officials at thr federal reserve recently coming out in favor of this, the vice chair of the fdic, a very strong advocate for breaking up the banks. and you hear it a lot more in members of congress that are supporting this notion.an so to me, on...
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Nov 17, 2012
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here we are post hurricane sandy. everyone is saying, well, maybe this is going to be our wake-up call and right now in new york city, the debate is over how much to increase fares in public transit and they -- the metrotransity authority wants to increase the price of riding a subway and the price of riding trains quite a bit, and so how does this make sense? we're supposedly having a wake-up call and we're making it harder for people to use public transit and that's because we don't have the resources that we need. >> you've been out on the devastation, why? >> i'm writing a book and the documentary to go with it and we were filming in the rockaways in staten island and in red hook, and also in the relief hubs where you just see a tremendous number of volunteers organized by occupy wall street. they call it occupy sandy. >> really? >> what i found is that the generosity is tremendous. i saw a friend last night and i asked her whether she'd been involved in the hurricane relief. they have my car, i hope they get it b
here we are post hurricane sandy. everyone is saying, well, maybe this is going to be our wake-up call and right now in new york city, the debate is over how much to increase fares in public transit and they -- the metrotransity authority wants to increase the price of riding a subway and the price of riding trains quite a bit, and so how does this make sense? we're supposedly having a wake-up call and we're making it harder for people to use public transit and that's because we don't have the...
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Jan 5, 2013
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sandy did not only destroy the homes of democrats and not republicans. the terrible drought that has gripped the great plains and our nation's bread basket has not only gone after liberal farmers and ranchers, it's gone after all of us. the point is that climate change will affect all americans no matter what your political beliefs, your religious beliefs, your race, class, creed, et cetera, okay. and in the end the only way we're going to deal with this issue is if we come together as a county and have a serious conversation not about is it real, but what can we do about it, okay. and i think that the effort to try to de-politicize this issue so it doesn't just become this knee-jerk-- identity politics. i'm a democrat, therefore i believe in climate change. i'm a republican, therefore i think climate change is a hoax. this is crazy, okay. i mean, again the climate system doesn't care. >> but the realists in politics will say that that's unrealistic, in fact former republican congressman sherwood boehlert has said that the best way for this to happen is
sandy did not only destroy the homes of democrats and not republicans. the terrible drought that has gripped the great plains and our nation's bread basket has not only gone after liberal farmers and ranchers, it's gone after all of us. the point is that climate change will affect all americans no matter what your political beliefs, your religious beliefs, your race, class, creed, et cetera, okay. and in the end the only way we're going to deal with this issue is if we come together as a county...
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as you know, one year ago this weekend, 20 school children and six educators were massacred at the sandy hook elementary school. the killer also murdered his mother, and then killed himself. 28 deaths in all, from guns. and across america, perhaps as many as 30,000 more have been killed since that fatal day. this is why i have asked richard slotkin to join me. he has spent his adult life delving into how violence took deep root in our culture, from colonial days to now. in his magisterial trilogy, "regeneration through violence," "the fatal environment" and "gunfighter nation," richard slotkin tells how america came to embrace a mythology of gun-slinging settlers taming the wilderness to justify and romanticize a tragic record of subjugation and bloodshed. his latest book, "the long road to antietam," tells the tale of the bloodiest day in american history. in these and other works, this preeminent cultural historian tracks the evolution of the gun culture that continues to dominate, wound and kill. richard slotkin has retired now from a distinguished teaching career of over four decades
as you know, one year ago this weekend, 20 school children and six educators were massacred at the sandy hook elementary school. the killer also murdered his mother, and then killed himself. 28 deaths in all, from guns. and across america, perhaps as many as 30,000 more have been killed since that fatal day. this is why i have asked richard slotkin to join me. he has spent his adult life delving into how violence took deep root in our culture, from colonial days to now. in his magisterial...
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Nov 23, 2013
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it be the environment, whether it be, you know, the occupy movement, helping people with hurricane sandy. we have a lot of fragmented movements, and i think we probably have a lot more than we realize because the press gives them no visibility, as you know. so we don't really have a sense of the degree to which these -- how pronounced these really are. i think the real issue here is, you know, what would it mean to begin to do at least two things, to say the very least? one is to develop cultural apparatuses that can offer a new vocabulary for people, where questions of freedom and justice and the problems that we're facing can be analyzed in ways that reach mass audiences in accessible language. we have to build a formative culture. we have to do that. secondly, we've got to overcome the fractured nature of these movements. i mean, the thing that plagues me about progressives in the left and liberals is they are all sort of ensconced in these fragmented movements that seem to suggest those movements constitute the totality of the system of oppression that we are facing. and they don't.
it be the environment, whether it be, you know, the occupy movement, helping people with hurricane sandy. we have a lot of fragmented movements, and i think we probably have a lot more than we realize because the press gives them no visibility, as you know. so we don't really have a sense of the degree to which these -- how pronounced these really are. i think the real issue here is, you know, what would it mean to begin to do at least two things, to say the very least? one is to develop...
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look at what happened with sandy hook. look at what happened with hurricane sandy and climate change. we are capable of turning away because we get bored with one thing and need the next. >> at the time of the sandy hook shootings, you wrote about the learned helplessness that seemed to permeate that situation. talk about that a moment. >> we have had the unfortunate experience of being outraged, being brazilians, trying to get something done, and watching as the dysfunctional system that we are forced to live under destroys momentum and creates stasis, or adds power to the already powerful, rather than enabling reform. we have, for example, on capitol hill, a system which is built on the need to create ads, narratives, phony reality about members who are running for office. and they need to finance that because our television stations make a killing on that. especially in the swing states. and so the only way they can finance it is by doing quid pro quo deals with special interests. so when the newtown tragedy happened, m
look at what happened with sandy hook. look at what happened with hurricane sandy and climate change. we are capable of turning away because we get bored with one thing and need the next. >> at the time of the sandy hook shootings, you wrote about the learned helplessness that seemed to permeate that situation. talk about that a moment. >> we have had the unfortunate experience of being outraged, being brazilians, trying to get something done, and watching as the dysfunctional...
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whether it's the collectivity of, like, "hey, listen, we all came out and helped during hurricane sandy." if it's the collectivity of, "listen, i come from this community. in this community we have pride. in this community we try to help each other." i think that there's always been a number of stories that contest and work against this idea of this sort of crazy individualism in america. and both have always been present. and i think that there's a great calling. there's a great combat between the two of them. and i guess part of me thinks that collectivity and helping your society and being civic-mindedness is as much a part of what it means to be an american as being this big peak winner, this peak person at the top. >> but that former story's not the one we've been hearing punctuated or accentuated the last 40 years, right? >> well, no, i mean, i think we hear it in different places. but do we hear it with the biggest megaphone? no. the biggest megaphones want to talk about the person on top. they want to talk about the hero, the winner. but the little megaphones, you're in a librar
whether it's the collectivity of, like, "hey, listen, we all came out and helped during hurricane sandy." if it's the collectivity of, "listen, i come from this community. in this community we have pride. in this community we try to help each other." i think that there's always been a number of stories that contest and work against this idea of this sort of crazy individualism in america. and both have always been present. and i think that there's a great calling. there's a...
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this was just days after hurricane sandy. roads were washed out. we had to have, you know, caravans trying to get people to the polls. people stationed at bridges that had been washed out persuading them to go out of their way to vote which i think produced that last 19 votes we needed. so i'll be ever grateful to the woman who did that. you don't know what's going to win in elections, so you do everything. you have to have the so-called air war, television, the ground game, what working families and our allies did. you put it all together and sometimes when you have a good candidate who's willing to be forthright and then you have an opponent who decides, "ah, i'm going to kill her with this," it makes, it's a perfect storm. >> and here's her opponent's ad -- >> shadowy new york city money groups calling themselves campaign finance reformers spending hundreds of thousands on neck tiff attacks. rewarding their candidates like cece tkaczyk who pushed their agenda. taxpayer-funded campaigns which could cost us over $200 million per election. george a
this was just days after hurricane sandy. roads were washed out. we had to have, you know, caravans trying to get people to the polls. people stationed at bridges that had been washed out persuading them to go out of their way to vote which i think produced that last 19 votes we needed. so i'll be ever grateful to the woman who did that. you don't know what's going to win in elections, so you do everything. you have to have the so-called air war, television, the ground game, what working...